Zone Leaders - Careers Hive

Pay: £13.65 per hour
Work hours: Approximately 30 hours over 4 days
Location: National Museum of Scotland
Key Dates: Training: 23 & 24 October 2025 / Live: 27 October to 30 October 2025

Join our team as a Zone Leader for this exciting and interactive event at NMS for S1-S3 pupils.

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About the role: 

Our STEM careers event for S1–S3 pupils, Careers Hive, will be in-person at the National Museum of Scotland. Careers Hive is an immersive careers education event designed to give students between the ages of 11-14 a new way to think about their futures. 

As a Zone Leader you will be responsible for oversight of 2 zones and will be responsible for: 

  • Supervising the volunteers assigned to your zones 

  • Facilitating interactions between the industry volunteers and young people 

  • Maintaining the safety of your space, including safe use and storage of equipment 


To find out more about our Careers Hive event follow this link  

https://www.edinburghscience.co.uk/schools/secondary/careershive/ 

 

About you: 

  • You will be a natural communicator and able to build rapport quickly and easily with young people. 

  • You will ideally have team supervisor experience in an events environment, where you will have shown to be approachable, reliable, and supportive of team members. 

  • You will be experienced and confident at presenting to and facilitating groups of young people.   

  • You will have some experience in youth work or in an education setting or community education setting.   

  • A Scientific or STEM background is desirable but not essential, but you will have a passion for inspiring, encouraging and supporting the development of young people. 

Training will take place on the 23 & 24 October, prior to the event. 

Successful candidates for this post may be required to join the PVG scheme and subject to a criminal check through Disclosure Scotland. 

View the full job description here: Job Description

 

How to apply: 

Click the link below to visit our dedicated careers portal. Please note that only applications submitted via our careers portal will be considered. 

Please note: By the start of any employment with Edinburgh Science, you must have the right to work in the UK and documentary evidence to support this.  

 

The closing date for applications is: Sunday 7 September at 11:59PM 

Interviews will be held between: 17 - 26 September 

Note: This is a temporary, short-term contract.

 

At Edinburgh Science we welcome applications from all backgrounds because we believe that bringing together people with different perspectives, ideas and experiences always leads to better discussions, decisions and results.

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Opportunities

  • Experience Guides - Careers Hive
    Apply before 11:59pm on Sunday, 7th September 2025

    Pay: £12.60 per hour
    Work hours: Approximately 20 hours over 4 days
    Location: National Museum of Scotland
    Key Dates: Training: 23 October 2025 / Live: 27 October to 30 October 2025

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Edinburgh Science

Edinburgh Science Foundation is an educational charity that inspires people of all ages and backgrounds around the world to experience the wonder of science and technology. Best known for Edinburgh’s annual Science Festival – the world’s first science festival and still one of the world’s largest – and for our Learning programmes that sees Generation Science tour Scotland and bring science to life in classrooms throughout the year and promotes STEM careers to teens through initiatives such as Careers Hive. An increasing worldwide element shares our content, passion and expertise more widely through an extensive portfolio of international projects.

Our mission is to inspire, encourage and challenge people of all ages and backgrounds to explore, understand and engage with the world around them and to communicate the educational, social and economic benefits of science and technology.

 

Our language is that of live experiences that amaze, inform and entertain in equal measure. We put the customer first whether they are the public, school teacher or pupil. We want to be the best before we are the largest. We thrive on creativity, rely upon professionalism and insist on accuracy. We believe in testing what we do assuming that rarely can an event not be improved. We respect and nurture the partnerships on which we depend for support, people and ideas. We know we are only as good as the people we work with and so value them all, here and abroad.